[Glade-devel] Glade and Custom widgets

[taf2 lehigh edu (Todd Fisher)]

Damon Chaplin wrote:

> No, you don't need to do that.
>
> If your widget can calculate its own width & height exactly, it should
> do that in the normal size_request/size_allocate class methods, e.g. see
> gtklabel.c. You don't need to set the width/height in Glade in this
> case.
>
> If your widget is something like a GtkTreeView, where the width & height
> is set by the application, you set the Width/Height on the Common tab to
> a reasonable *minimum* width/height, and then set the dialog's default
> width/height properties to a reasonable default size for the entire
> dialog. That way the user can resize the dialog as appropriate.
>  
Right so my widget is like a GtkTreeView; and the problem is when I set 
a specific width/height in the
common tab in glade my widget does not recieve a size_request with the 
values from the common tab.  Perhaps,
a better question is how are the width/height values from the common tab 
propagated to the custom widget?  I
was under the impression a custom widget would recieve a size_request.  
But, when I trace my widget it does not
recieve a size_request with the values in the commn tab.  So, for now 
i've resorted to using the parameters passed
to the widget constructor, int1 and int2.

-Todd

> On Wed, 2004-08-25 at 04:49, Todd Fisher wrote:
>  
>
> > Just doing some more digging and was curious if maybe this means it 
> > necessary to create register properties in the common tab via 
> > glade_register_custom_prop?
> >
> > thanks,
> >
> > -todd
> >
> >    
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >   I'm developing an application using libglade-2.4.  I'm working on a 
> > > custom widget and am having difficulty understand how libglade handles 
> > > custom widgets and height/width_request under the properties tab 
> > > common.  Should my widget recieve a width_request?
> > >
> > > thanks,
> > >
> > > todd
> > >      
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